Division of Health Informatics and Surveillance (DHIS)

Learn how NNDSS defends America from health threats and why CDC is modernizing this critical notifiable diseases surveillance system.

Learn how electronic case reporting (eCR) moves data quickly, securely, and seamlessly from electronic health records in healthcare facilities to public health agencies.

NSSP and its Biosense Platform advance the timely exchange of syndromic data to improve U.S. situational awareness and responsiveness to events.

NBS is an integrated information system that helps local, state, and territorial public health departments manage reportable disease data and send notifiable disease data to CDC.

Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER) makes health data available for public health research, decision making, priority setting, program evaluation, and resource allocation.

PHIN Vocabulary Access and Distribution System (VADS) provides standard vocabularies to CDC and its public health partners in one place as a web-based enterprise vocabulary system.

The PHIN Public Health Directory (PHIN DIR) is a repository of information about organizations and jurisdictions important to public health programs and provides Object Identifiers (OIDs) for use within the public health community.

Epi Info™ is a free software suite used globally for outbreak investigations; disease surveillance; and analysis, visualization, and reporting.

Message Evaluation and Testing Service (METS) validates health departments’ NNDSS case notification messages against messaging, vocabulary, and program standards.

MVPS is software that receives, processes, and provisions data for nationally notifiable diseases based on HL7 standards and new technology.

PHINMS is software that securely sends and receives any message type and facilitates interoperability among public health information systems.

POD Assist is an emergency response information system that is designed to track the administration and dispensing of countermeasures to local populations, usually via points of dispensing (PODs) or vaccination and dispensing clinics.